shaken - Story 131480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was small, unassuming, but it seemed to emanate a dark energy. Her hands started to tremble the moment she saw it. "To: Sarah Chen." The previous tenant. Why was she getting mail for this person?

She backed away from the package, pressing against the cold brick of the building. She'd been on edge since last week, after the incident at the grocery store.

Her mind raced. She couldn't breathe. She didn’t know what to do. She turned, and fled up the stairs, leaving the package untouched.

Emotion: shaken

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.72 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.86

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion shaken. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 shaken stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the shaken emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the shaken vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.351
`unable`	0.269
`focus`	0.266
`😞`	0.258
`다시`	0.257

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.769
`la`	-0.579
`a`	-0.375
`happy`	-0.292
`"`	-0.290